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CATALOGUE OF ORTUOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



According to information given by Mr. Nightingale to 

 the Entomological Society of London (July 6, 1835), this 

 species of Phasmidte is one of the most injurious insects 

 inhabiting the Bara Tonga Islands of the South Pacific 

 Ocean, where it is sometimes so abundant, feeding upon 

 the cocoa-nut trees, and devouring both the old stock and 

 the young shoots, that orders are issued by the chiefs to 

 destroy them by cutting them in pieces, thereby to pre- 

 vent the damage vphich they inflict ou this tree, which con- 

 stitutes, in fact, the chief support of the community. Simi- 

 lar particulars of the habits of this species are also given 

 in Williams's ' Missionary Enterprise in the South Seas,' 

 p. 495. 



4. (256.) Lopaphus galacpterus. 



Obscure viridis ; capitis spinis duabus acutis abbreviatis, 

 inter oculos locatis ; alis lacteis ; prothorace bispinoso ; me- 

 sothorace 1 2-spinoso, spinis 6-seriatis ; pedibus marmoratis, 

 anticis sinuatis. 



Mas. Corpore Hneari, angusto. 



Long. Corp. 2" ; proth. 1'" ; mesoth. 7'" ; elytr. \\'" ; 

 alar. 5'"; ped. postr. 1" 6'". 



FcEm. Corpore bis latiore, abdominis articulis margine 

 posteriore subpromiuentibus. 



Long. Corp. 2" T" ; proth. H'" ; mesoth. 9'" ; alar. /'" ; 

 ped. postr. 2" 2'". 



Phasma galacpterum. Be Haan, Orthopt. Orient, p. 127. 

 pi. 13. f. 5. mas, f. 4. fern. 



Hab. Sumatra. 



5. (257.) Lopaphus Macklottii. 



Fusco- et viridi-marmoratus ; capitis spinis duabus in- 

 crassatis acutis ; alis luteis, margine exteriore fusco, albo 

 punctato ; thorace Isevi ; pedibus marmoratis et fasciatis, 

 anticis non sinuatis. 



Mas. Corpore liucari ; jiedibus postremis corpore loiigi- 

 oribus. 



Long. Corp. 2" 1"'; proth. li'"; mesoth. 6|"' ; ped. 

 postr. 2" 4"' ; auten. 2" 3"' ; elytr. 3'" ; alar. 1". 



Foem. Abdomine ter latiore, articulis margine poste- 

 riore lobo obtuso angulato auctis, vagina tubiformi. 



Long. corp. 2" 9'" ; proth. 2'" ; mesoth. 74'" ; ped. 

 postr. 2" 7'"; elytr. 3'"; alar. 1". 



Phasma Macklottii, Be Haan, Orth. Orient, p. 126. pi. 11. 

 f. 1. mas, f. 2. fcem. 



Hab. Buitenzorg. 



The operculum of the female is constructed as in Ano- 

 phelepis Xiphias and in Lopaphus Hadrillus. I also saw 



a species in the Museum of Leyden, and in that of the 

 Zoological Society of Amsterdam from the Island of Nias, 

 exhibiting a similar structure, having also very short rudi- 

 mental tegmina, but no trace of wings. I had not, how- 

 ever, an opportunity of describing it. 



6. (258.) Lopaphus Hadrillus, Westw. 

 Plate XXVIII. fig. 4. 



Fuscus luteo variegatus, luteoqne grauulatus ; capite et 

 thorace spinosis ; obscurus, antennis pallidis, apice fusco 

 annulatis ; tegrainibus subrotundatis, longitudine dimidii 

 metanoti, ante medium alte augulatis ; alis vix tegminibus 

 duplo longioribus, area costali nigra, postica infumata ; pedi- 

 bus intermediis crassioribus, femoribus ante apicem supra 

 bi-, infra uni-lobatis, tarsis compressis (foem.). 



Long. Corp. unc. 3f ; cap. lin. 3 ; proth. lin. 3 ; mesoth. 



lin. II ; metath. lin. 5 ; abdom. lin. 17 + lin. 6 = lin. 23 ; 



tegm. lin. 3^ ; alse, liu. 6 ; expans. alar. lin. 15. 



Hab. In Sarawak, Borneo (Z>. Wallace). In Mus. 

 Saunders. 



Female. Long, narrow, and subcylindrical, of a brownish 

 black colour varied with luteous, and furnished with luteous 

 tubercles, granules, and spines. Head with two acute, 

 erect, rather diverging spines in the middle of the crown, 

 and several smaller ones at the sides. Ocelli wanting. 

 Antennae long, luteous, annulated near the tips with brown; 

 basal joint subquadrate, flat. Prothorax with two spines 

 near together in the middle of the anterior part, and two 

 wider apart behind. Mesothorax spinose, with five pairs 

 of larger spines on the upper surface at nearly equal di- 

 stances apart ; the first pair near the front, and the fifth 

 near the hind margin, these two pairs, as well as the fourth, 

 close together ; the second and third pairs with the spines 

 wide apart. Metathorax with the sides finely spined, each 

 having two larger spines, the second close to the insertion 

 of the hind legs. Abdomen long, subcylindrical, subru- 

 gose ; each of the basal segments with a transverse row of 

 minute spines near the hind margin, largest in the fourth 

 and fifth segments : these and the following are slightly 

 dilated ou each side at a short distance from the base ; ter- 

 minal segment subquadrate, rugose at the sides and apex ; 

 the anal styles exserted. Operculum extending beyond 

 the extremity of the abdomen ; its apex compressed, emar- 

 ginate, and very finely serrated, accompanied by a pair of 

 elongated horny compressed plates of equal length, arising 

 from the eighth segment, furcate at the tip ; the upper 

 division slender and acute, the lower truncate and denti- 

 culated. The tegmina are nearly rounded, blackish, with 



